The night Lissa Cunneen was raped by a stranger in the University of Washington dorms, she was wearing Levis, a red sweatshirt, boots, an Arab scarf, and pearl earrings gifted to her by her grandparents.

This is the outfit Cunneen plans to recreate on June 19 for Seattle Slutwalk, a march organized to combat an all-too-common argument that women should dress less provocatively to avoid being raped.

"The person responsible for rape is the rapist," she says. "Victims are never to blame for being sexually assaulted."

Now Cunneen is organizing a group of like-minded sloggers, feminists, victims of assault, and anyone else who refuses to believe that women bring sexual violence upon themselves to join her on June 19, at 11:30 a.m. at the conical fountain in Cal Anderson Park, and march.

Cunneen was 19 when she was attacked.

It was Christmas break, 1982. She was spending her vacation in a secure, well-populated campus dorm. She'd noticed an unfamiliar man walking through the hall, presumably looking for a friend. When she went to the bathroom, this man sneaked into her unlocked room and armed himself with the knife she was using to prepare dinner. When she returned, "He kicked the door shut and beat the crap out of me," she says. "Then he sat on me, held the knife to my throat, and told me to 'suck it.' So I did. I remember thinking, 'I can do this. I can buy time here.'"

Eventually, she fought back. She started screaming. She grabbed the knife, cutting her hands. Her rapist panicked and fled. He was never caught.

"It doesn't matter that I wasn't dressed provocatively," Cunneen says. "I was slut-shamed afterward by other girls on the [dorm] floor. People always try to find excuses for why it's the victim's fault." Men and women still tell her how she brought the attack on herself—her dorm room wasn't locked, she didn't fight back soon or hard enough—because if you can blame the victim, it means there was a reason for the attack. "They tell themselves the same thing would never happen to them because they'd do things differently," she says.

And to the people—and slog commenters—who claim that airing the brutal details of rape is somehow crass or voyeuristic: "It’s important that these stories are told," says Cunneen, otherwise, "people get comfortable. They think that if you don’t talk about it, it’s not happening. My own parents still won't even say the word 'rape.' We have to remind people, again and again, that this is happening." That women are victims, not provocateurs. Even re-telling her assault 30 years later leaves her shaking and sweaty. "Because the victims never forget," she says, "and there are a lot of victims out there."

SlutWalk Seattle is scheduled to begin at noon at Cal Anderson's Bobby Morris play field. Participants will march through the streets, downtown, to Westlake Center for a rally. The Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest the event.